For a presenter, few moments are better than feeling you have the audience in the palm of your hand. And few are more painful than feeling the gulf between you and your listeners getting wider and wider. Here are 4… Read More »4 Ways to Boost Your Ability to Persuade
I bristle at those who say to presenters, “Just be yourself.” Which self? The self that converses with my best friend’s grandmother at her dining room table, or the guy who teases his teammates and drinks beer while taking off… Read More »Which Costume Should You Wear?
“Stars can be trillions of light years distant from each other, but maybe nothing is so distant from anything else in this universe as the expressed thought of person A from the understanding of person B.” -Reid Buckley Reid Buckley… Read More »Mind the Gap
Why do orchestras need conductors? Can’t the musicians play by themselves? After all, they can read music, know when to come in and when to stop. All the dynamics are written in black and white: fortissimo here, piano there. Why… Read More »What’s the difference between translation and interpretation?
Glossophobia is the fear of public speaking. It comes, like all the other phobias, from the ancient Greeks, more specifically the Athenians, who spent time thinking about speech communication. You may be more aware of this word because of this… Read More »Speaking Anxiety: Glossophobia
In a piece originally written in the late 1860’s, but published in The Atlantic many years later, Henry James Sr., the father of Henry James the novelist and William James the philosopher-psychologist, sought to explain just what it was about… Read More »Presentation Skills: The Magic of Ralph Waldo Emerson